This time is not conducive to folks who must still go to work outside their homes.. Why not limit the time a meeting will go into the evening. When council members get off topic or talk about stuff not related to the item being discussed, someone needs to bring it back to the matter immediately. Remove 2nd calls to the public, not aware of other cities that do this. You have already given the citizens time to comment, then the council comments, what value is added by going back to the public!